Hair curler



J. RANZ HAIR CURL-ER Filed May 1922 Patented May 15, 1.923.

JACOB RANZ, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

HAIR CURLER.

Application filed May 23, 1922. Serial No. 562,997.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, decor; RANZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hair Curlers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it ap pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this application, in which Figure 1 is a detail view of my improved hair curler.

Figure 2 is an enlarged vertical sectional view through the front end thereof.

Figure 3 is a top plan view of the front end.

Figure a is a horizontal sectional view through the rear end.

Figure 5 is a rear end elevational View, and

Figure 6 is a side elevational view.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in hair curlers, the objects being to construct a device of the character described which is simple, cheap to manufacture, and etiicient in service. My improved hair curler may be used cold or in connection with a heating element. The article consists primarily of a hollow tube adapted to receive a plug in one end, which plug may or may not be heated, the opposite end of said tube being crimped to press upon the terminal ends of a refolded spring wire loop which normally occupies a position away from the tube whereby the hair may be wound around the tube, after which the closed end of the wire loop is stressed or bent over the forward end of the tube and held in its closed position by means of the plug, while clamping the hairaround the tube. The closed end of the loop is provided with shoulders so as to prevent the hair Wound upon the tube from coming in contact with the plug, if the same is heated, said shoulders also serving to free the front end of the tube from strands of hair which might extend over the tube opening thereby preventing the introduction of the plug into the tube or possibly the breaking of the hair when the tube is inserted through the openmg.

In the drawings, 1 indicates a tube preferably cylindrical and having its ends slightly round, as shown. Originally, this tube'is a straight cylinder open at both ends. 2 is a spring wire loop whose ends are bent towards each other as shown in Figure 4:.

These bent ends are inserted into one end of the tube, which I designate the rear end,

after which, by a suitable press the tube is crimped or flattened, shown in Figure 5. The shoulder l formed by this flattening process extends in front of the bent ends 2*,

as shown in Figure 4. This prevents the ends of the loop from moving inwardly with respect to the tube and the flattened compressed portions l extending between the reaches of the loop extremities prevent the ends of the loop from being withdrawn from the tube. The bent ends 2 prevent rotation of the loop ends in the crimped end of the tube.

As shown in Figures 1 and 6, the loop is bent forwardly and upwardly, its front end being connected by means of a cross wire 2 whose extremities are connected by reaches 2 to portions 2", the latter forming shoulders. 3 indicates a plug preferably formed of hollow metal having a wooden or insula tion handle 3* at itsforward end, the inner end of said handle being provided with an annulus 3 This metal plug 3 may be solid, if desired, and'may be heated either by the application of external heat or it may vcontain an electrical heating unit in circuit with the wires 4; or said. plug may be used cold.

in operation, the plug is removed, as shown in Figure 1, so as to permit the loop 2 to spring outwardly from the tube thereby enabling the operator to wind the hair upon the tube 1. After the hair is wound upon the tube 1, the forward end of the loop 2 is brought down and moved past the front end of the tube in which movement the end 2 and the reaches 2 wipe the hair from the end of the tube and from over the opening in the front end of the tube, thereby exposing said opening so that the plug 3 can be readily inserted therein. The plug being inserted in position stresses the loop and locks it in its closed position, and the cross wire 2' can be seated in the annulus 3 whereby the plug is prevented from accidental longitudinal displacement. shoulders 2 prevent the hair on the tube from sliding off of the tube and coming in contact with the plug.

I claim:

1. A hair curler comprising a tube, and a 110 The spring wire loopwhose ends are secured and held in position against displacement in one endof said tube.

,2. A hair curler comprising a tube, a loop having bent ends inserted Within and engaged by theWalls of said tube.

A hair curler comprising a tube, one

end of which is flattened, and a loop Whose end portions are held in position by the flat- *seeured in position in 7 said, tube having flattened portions for en-" tened end of the tuhe. I a

' 4. A hair ourlereomprising a tube, a loop one end of saidtube,

gaging said loop, and a rernm aole plug adapted to eooperate \Vltll the opposite end ojf the loop.

5fAhair curler comprising a tube, a loop I fixedly mounted in one end of the tube, and

normally extending away from the opposite end of'the. tube, and a removableplug for stressing and ho'ldingsaidloop iniolosed position.

,6. curle-rclo nprising a;tuhe, a loop otsaid tube, a plug insert-able Within the tube for holding said loop. in its closed posltion, and means on said plug cooperating with.

said loop "for preventi'ngi accidental longitudinal displaeei'nent of said plug;

8. A hair curler comprising a tube, a loop secured in one end of said tuhe,' sa1d loop having shoulders jtorl nedon its opposite or free end and'whlch shoulders cooperate w th the tube to preventdisplaoement'of the hair around'the tube When said loop is inoperative position, and line loop in operative position.

In testimony whereof signature this 18th day of May, 1922. 1

' M J O RANK ans forfholding said hereunto my 7 

